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Isaiah Rice

1917–1980

United States

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Isaiah Rice (1917 – 1980) was an American photographer whose photographs document the people and neighborhoods of Asheville in western North Carolina. Rice is credited with providing some of the few known representations of Black Appalachian communities from a Black Appalachian perspective.

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